Abstract: Emeritus Professor of Economics (Claremont Graduate School, Ph. D., 1971), William Brand Simpson served as Special Agent in
the Counter Intelligence Corps, U.S. Army during World War II, mainly in the Philippines and Japan. The manuscript and published
materials contained within this collection were collected and assembled by Simpson and consist of newspapers, periodicals,
correspondence, maps, military documents, including declassified items, and a variety of publications - government, military
and other - relating to the Pacific Theater during Word War II, specifically the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the
establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and the American return to the Philippines, and the American occupation
of Japan and Korea. Post-war materials document the treatment of Chinese forced labor in Japan, the Japanese war crime trials,
and the post-war economies of the Philippine Islands, Japan and Korea.

Physical location: Please consult repository.

Languages: Languages represented in the collection: Chiefly in
English; some in Japanese, Chinese, Tagalog, and Spanish.

Administrative Information

Access

This collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], William B. Simpson World War II Pacific Theater collection. Special Collections, Honnold Mudd Library,
Claremont University Consortium.

Source of Acquisition

Gift of William B. Simpson, 1992.

Accruals

No additions to the collection are anticipated.

Processing Information

Arranged and processed by Special Collections staff. Simpson's original order has been retained where possible; exceptions
have been made, however. Items removed from his original order were done so based on size or fragility.

Biography / Administrative History

Emeritus Professor of Economics (Claremont Graduate School, Ph. D., 1971), William Brand Simpson served as Special Agent in
the Counter Intelligence Corps, U.S. Army during World War II, mainly in the Philippines and Japan. He was called back to
Japan in 1947 to assist the Legal Section of SCAP (Supreme Commander of Allied Powers) in Tokyo in the Japanese war crime
trials. Simpson advised Japan Public Television (NHK) in 1993 on a documentary of the treatment of Chinese forced labor in
Japan during World War II. In 1994 he assisted a group in Japan seeking reparations for Chinese survivors of Japanese prison
camps. Simpson died in January 1995.

The manuscript and published materials contained within this collection were collected and assembled by Simpson, who gifted
the collection to Pomona College in 1992.

Scope and Content of the Collection

The collection contains newspapers, periodicals, correspondence, maps, military documents, including declassified items, and
a variety of publications - government, military and other - relating to the Pacific Theater during World War II, specifically
the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and the American return
to the Philippines, the American occupation of Japan and Korea, the Japanese war crime trials and the post-war economies of
the Philippine Islands, Japan and Korea. Of particular note is Simpson's 161-page documentation of the investigation into
the atrocities at Chusan Camp, Hanaoka, Akita-Ken.

Series Arrangement

Series 1: Japanese occupation of the Philippines

Series 2: Commonwealth of the Philippines and American return to Philippines

Series 3: Publications by U.S. military for civilian population

Series 4: Manila civilian newspapers

Series 5: American occupation of Japan and Korea

Series 6: Post-war, regarding war crimes

Series 7: Miscellaneous documents relating to the Philippine economy

Series 8: Miscellaneous documents relating to the Japanese economy

Series 9: Miscellaneous documents relating to Korea

Series 10: Atlas and maps

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Hino, Asihei,
The Flowering of Racial Spirit, translated into English by Kazi-o Nisina, Department of Information, The Imperial Japanese Forces in the Philippines, Manila:
1942, hardcover, 139 pp. English, also in Japanese. Includes account of the fall of Bataan and battle for Corregidor, from
Japanese viewpoint

Republic of the Philippines, Department of the Interior, Bureau of the Census and Statistics,
Map of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Manila: 1943 April 11, one page, concentric circles with Manila as center

Box 1, Folder 6

Laurel, Jose P.,
Forces That Make a Nation Great, (President of the Japanese-sponsored government of the Philippines), published by the Bureau of Information and Public Security,
Ministry of the Interior, Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1943, 128 pp., illustrated

Box 1, Folder 7

Republic of the Philippines,
National Assembly Yearbook, 1943, first edition, Manila: 1943, 204 pp. Photographs and biographies of members of Japanese-sponsored National Assembly. Color
frontispiece photograph of Benigno S. Aquino, Speaker, National Assembly. Inscribed: F.C. de la Rama in ink on cover

Box 1, Folder 8

Cosmo Cultural Center,
Free Philippines, Vol. 1, No. 1, Manila: 1943, 152 pp. "A Souvenir Edition Commemorating the Birth of the Republic of the Philippines." Copy
inscribed in ink by the publisher "To President Laurel, Malacanon, 12-30-43." The Free Philippines is the first Filipino magazine
under the new regime

Box 1, Folder 9

Association for Service to the New Philippines,
The Kalibapi: The People's Party, Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1944, 36 pp., including 4 pages of music

Propaganda Corps, Imperial Japanese Forces,
Ideals of the New Philippines, undated, 37 pp. Chapter 6 (of 7) by Jorge B. Vargas, Chairman of the Executive Commission, "Philippines Grateful to Japan."
Other chapters by Japanese military officials. Includes Japanese Field Service Code, adopted 1941 January 8

The Tribune, Manila, in English: 1944 December 23-24, 27; 1945 January 1, each 4 pages

Box 1, Folder 14

Letter to "His Excellency, Lieut. Gen. Wati," 1944 June 15, original document, 6 pages single-spaced type. Authorship not
indicated, but determined by Simpson to have been written by Claro M. Recto, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Philippine Republic
during the Japanese occupation. Written in pencil on document, pg 6

Box 1, Folder 15

Editorial, "Review of the Month," from
The Oriental Economist, Tokyo, 1942 January (English), giving the Japanese view of Pearl Harbor and responsibility for the war (pp. 3-7)

Series 2:
Commonwealth of the Philippines and American return to Philippines,1935-1945; bulk 1944-1945

Box 1, Folder 16

Quezon, Manual L.,
Inaugural Address of His Excellency. President of the Philippines, 1935 November 15, Manila: Commonwealth of the Philippines, 26 pp. Bound in maroon fabrikoid, inner cover and end papers
in color, glassine interleaving, tied with maroon cord

Box 1, Folder 17

"The Government of the 'New Philippines': The Puppet President, General Powers and the Cabinet," undated, 8 pages, including
chart, mimeographed. Background information on members of the government installed by the Japanese in the Philippines, U.S.
Counter-Intelligence Corps, has been declassified

General Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces, Pacific, 441st Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment, Advance Echelon,
The Political Personality of Toyohiko Kagawa, undated, 6 pp., has been declassified

Subseries 5.1:
Nippon Times, Tokyo, English edition,
1945-1946

Box 4, Folder 6

Nippon Times, 1945 September 15, 21-23, 26-27

Box 4, Folder 7

Nippon Times, 1945 October 2, 6-7, 11, 14, 30

Box 4, Folder 8

Nippon Times, 1945 December 25, 30-31

Box 4, Folder 9

Nippon Times, 1946 January 3-9

Box 4, Folder 10

Nippon Times, 1946 January 29-February 1

Subseries 5.2:
Pacific Stars and Strips, American newspaper for U.S. forces, published daily in Tokyo for U.S. forces in Japan and Korea,
1945-1946

Box 4, Folder 1

Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1945 October 3-6, 8, 17, 30

Box 4, Folder 2

Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1945 November 3, 12

Box 4, Folder 3

Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1945 December 10, 15, 22

Box 4, Folder 4

Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1946 January 4-5, 9, 13, 17-18, 30

Box 4, Folder 5

Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1946 February 3-5, 7

Series 6:
Post-war, regarding war crimes,1945-1948 and 1987-1994; bulk, 1990-1993

Box 1, Folder 38

Simpson, William B.,
Investigation of Atrocities at Chusan Camp, Hanaoka, Akita-Ken, 1945 December 21, includes index and 10 photographs, 161 pp. Pages for Chinese translations are omitted. Chusan Camp housed
Chinese military personnel and civilians captured by the Japanese in China and used as forced labor in Japanese copper mines.

Box 1, Folder 39

U.S. Counter-Intelligence Corps, Akita,
Political section of Civil Intelligence Report, prepared by Special Agent 2652, W.B.S., has been declassified, 1945 December 29, 1946 January 5, 19, 26, February 2, March
15

Simpson correspondence with Ichiro Hisano and Jin Ishitobi regarding Chinese forced to work in prison camps in Japan, 1990-1992,
includes information on and photocopies of Ishitobi's two books located in folder 42

Box 1, Folder 42, Item 1

Ishitobi, Jin,
The Record of Forcefully Brought Chinese, Tokyo, 1990, inscribed on inside cover to William B. Simpson

Box 1, Folder 42, Item 2

Ishitobi, Jin,
The Proof of the Devil: Proof 40 Years After the Chinese Were Brought to Japan, Tokyo, 1987, inscribed on inside cover to William B. Simpson

Correspondence between Simpson and Japan Public Television (NHK) regarding Simpson's participation in a NHK special documentary
on Chinese forced laborers in Japan during WWII including related documents,
1946-1993; bulk, 1990-1993

Correspondence between Simpson and Ichiro Hisano and Jin Ishitobi regarding NHK documentary and articles written by Jin Ishitobi,
in both English and Japanese; includes article reprints in Japanese with English translation,
1993-1994

Box 1, Folder 61

Draft manuscript of Chapter 14, "The Chusan Cases Again", of
Special Agent in the Pacific, WWII: Counter-Intelligence -- Military, Political and Economic by Simpson, 1994, 17 pp.

Moving Images 1, Folder 62, Item 1

Videotape,
Elusive Foreign Ministry Report: Record of Chinese Forceful Hauling, by Japanese Public Television (NHK), 1993 August 14

Box 2, Folder 2

General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers,
Regulations Governing the Trials of Accused War Criminals, 1945 December 5

Box 2, Folder 3

Headquarters Eighth Army, United States Army, Office of Commanding General,
Subject: Rules of Procedure and Outline of Procedure for Trials of Accused War Criminals, To Presidents of War Crimes Commission, 1946 February 5

Series 7:
Miscellaneous documents relating to the Philippine economy,1940-1952

Rice, Stuart A. and Calbert L. Dedrick,
Japanese Statistical Organization, A Report of the Second Statistical Mission to Japan to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Washington, D.C., 1951
July, 29 pp.

Box 1, Folder 54, Item 1

Nakayama, Ichiro, "Evaluation of the Japanese Economy," reprint from
The Annals of the Hitotsubashi Academy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, 1951 October